Saturday’s post spoke of honoring who we really are by acknowledging our seasons, knowing where we are at in life and accepting that place with ease.  Gabby Bernstein talks about surrender a lot, and if you’ve been reading this work for a while you know that I struggle with the idea of surrender.  I hate the idea of giving up, that I wasn’t able to get it right on my own.  But understanding seasons and seeing how life shifts makes me look at surrender differently.  The seasons change and we can do nothing about it.  We don’t want to do anything about it because we accept it as the natural part of life.  The same is said for us.  We go through the same seasons, the same cycles as anything else.  Surrender can be about going with the flow.  Bernstein states it isn’t about giving up, it’s about giving over.  We would no sooner fight the changing seasons, why do we fight those changes in ourselves?  The sooner we recognize who we are and what we need, the sooner the universe can align and deliver—so give over the need for control and allow your seasons to come.

I admit that surrender can be a lot of work to do it all on our own—and this is where trust comes in.  We have to believe that giving over will be better than standing in our own way.  There comes a point where we have to trust either other people or a higher power to assist us on our way.  We aren’t designed to do things on our own, rather, we are meant to complement each other’s abilities and come together to create something better.  We have to stop controlling every detail because we are controlling our lives into existence rather than allowing them to exist.  Life isn’t about control.  For example, we are fully in Spring now by almost a month and we’ve had 80 degree days already (the past two days in a row), the trees are blooming, and they are calling for snow tonight.  Life is tumultuous at times but we can no sooner change those seasons any sooner than we would change the weather.

The weather moves, nature adapts, we go with it, and the most beautiful thing about it is that it ALWAYS works out.  It doesn’t matter what it is, even in the worst of circumstances, things always work out.  There is resilience in change and there is emergence in change.  Life isn’t stagnant and in order to bring out who we are, there are times we have to ride out the storms.  We have to take where we are at face value—it isn’t about what we feel, it’s about who we are and what’s happening.  When we do that, we see truth and we can make informed decisions, we can see which way to go.  The path becomes clear.  It’s the same with alignment.  When we see the options in front of us, when we give over a plan that doesn’t seem to be working, when we take our hands off the wheel, it can be scary for a bit, but things right themselves.  Trust that there is something there that will get you in the right direction if you let it.  Allow that support, allow what is to unfold, allow the truth and ease to enter.  The rest takes care of itself.